gwern comments on LW survey: Effective Altruists and donations - Less Wrong

18 Post author: gwern 14 May 2015 12:44AM

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Comment author: gwern 17 May 2015 03:43:06PM 1 point [-]

As Caplan would say, social desirability bias seems like an issue here. One would not expect people to penalize themselves in such a self-report rather than nudge estimates upwards and make themselves look better in their own mind.